This Week In West: March 1 – March 8

As one commenter pointed out in the Power Rankings article, we bloggers need to get back to doing what we do best: butchering predictions and angering people with our analysis. Because the other writers are basically covering the West region matches by previewing and recapping Spring Breaks, the onus of responsibility falls on me to…

3/3 Men’s Power Rankings

Hello again, readers!  It was a light week on the Men’s side last week, but that does not mean we will not publish our always anticipated Weekly Power Rankings.  I’d like to give a shout-out to Brian Tan of Tufts because I want to stay relevant and cool.  On a more serious note, all those…

2/24 Men’s Power Rankings

One thing that Indoor Nationals brings that you probably forgot is the return of our weekly power rankings.  The five bloggers have come together to once again take all the latest results and give you some rankings that are probably more reliable than the ITA rankings (#sorrynotsorry).  We have a lot of big changes due…

POTW #1 2/16-2/22

NCAA MEN’S REGIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: February 16th-22nd Welcome to the first Player of the Week (POTW) article of 2015! For new readers, this is something the writers will do weekly, as we all enjoy giving props when props are due (even D3West). For old readers, how much have you all missed my nicknames???…

Indoor Nationals – Match-Up by Match-up

Third Indoors Preview, third day of the work week.  I did mention it was #IndoorsWeek, correct?  And the bigger question is, why hasn’t anyone else gotten in on this hashtag?  I just wanna be trending on twitter for once (or verified).  The past two previews have given you readers more of an overview of Indoors…

Spring Break – Walla Walla Recap

What’s up d3 tennis world. This past weekend, the tennis community migrated up to Walla Walla, WA, where #13 Whitman, #21 Redlands, #18 Texas-Tyler, and #23 UC Santa Cruz all met to play some dual matches! There were a number of questions that the critics had for these teams, such as how would Whitman respond…

Spring Break Walla Walla Preview

Oh DIII tennis, why can’t I quit you!? I keep trying to pretend each article is my last, but it’s not even worth pretending anymore. Last year, Whitman hosted a major DIII tennis weekend for the first time since Coach Northam created DIII National Indoors, and it was a blast. Though CMS pretty much stole the…

2015 Men’s Season Preview: #13 Whitman Squirrels

Apparently, we’re having trouble getting all the previews out, so The Headmaster has talked me out of retirement once more for this preview, making me the Roger Clemens of DIII tennis blogging. I haven’t exactly hid this fact from readers before, but Whitman is one of my favorite teams in the West. They’re like the Kenyon of…

2015 Season Preview: #20 Cal Lutheran

California Lutheran University Location: Thousand Oaks, CA Coach: Mike Gennette (20th season) Preseason Ranking: 20 Overview: I know you guys missed me, so I’m gonna use some of my precious, precious free time to preview the Kingsmen. After being defined by Ballou and (to a lesser extent) Giuffrida for the better part of a decade, year 1 AB…

Rapid Reaction: Pool C Changes

If any of you have been following the writers on twitter today, something huge came out of the ITA convention of all things DIII tennis.  While I was out galavanting through the streets of who knows where in a santa costume, crazy things went down in the DIII world.  As of right now, Pool C…